In most cases, you can do an in-place upgrade of Vista to Windows 7. For most Windows Vista users the upgrade process will be painless with just some small tweaking needed post upgrade.
Watch this video from CNET to get a quick overview of the process:
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Regards
Marc Liron – Microsoft MVP
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Microsoft provides no direct upgrade path from Windows XP to Windows 7.
But then again with millions of PCs running Windows XP that are up to 10 years old it would have been a tech nightmare offering this solution. (APPLE does not offer this for their own system upgrades from 2001 either.)
This week I have managed to do a clean install of Windows 7 on a 5 year old DELL Inspiron D800 laptop and it installed without a hitch. The only extra work was manually re-installing the graphics drivers from the Dell support website, as the default one that came with Windows 7 did not offer the screen resolution I needed. But that took only a few mins. of my time.
So I now have been abale to breathe a new lease of life into some old hardware – something that Windows Vista couild not do on this old laptop.
Here in this CNET video you can get a quick overview of how to upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7.
In the video it mentions the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor.
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Regards
Marc Liron – Microsoft MVP
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Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader 9.1.3 and Acrobat 9.1.3, Adobe Reader 8.1.6 and Acrobat 8.1.6 for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, and Adobe Reader 7.1.3 and Acrobat 7.1.3 for Windows and Macintosh.
These vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. This update represents the second quarterly security update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat.
Adobe recommends users of Adobe Reader 9.1.3 and Acrobat 9.1.3 and earlier versions update to Adobe Reader 9.2 and Acrobat 9.2. Adobe recommends users of Acrobat 8.1.6 and earlier versions update to Acrobat 8.1.7, and users of Acrobat 7.1.3 and earlier versions update to Acrobat 7.1.4.
For Adobe Reader users who cannot update to Adobe Reader 9.2, Adobe has provided the Adobe Reader 8.1.7 and Adobe Reader 7.1.4 updates. Updates apply to all platforms: Windows, Macintosh and UNIX.
Affected software versions:
- Adobe Reader 9.1.3 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX
- Adobe Acrobat 9.1.3 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh
Solution:
- Adobe Reader
Adobe Reader users on Windows can find the appropriate update here:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Windows
- Acrobat
Acrobat Standard and Pro users on Windows can find the appropriate update here:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Windows
Acrobat Pro Extended users on Windows can find the appropriate update here:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=158&platform=Windows
Acrobat 3D users on Windows can find the appropriate update here:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=112&platform=Windows
Severity Rating:
Adobe categorizes this as a critical update.
NOTE:
There are reports that this issue is being exploited in the wild, via limited, targeted attacks.
This update resolves a memory corruption issue that could potentially lead to code execution.
This update resolves multiple heap overflow vulnerabilities that could potentially lead to code execution.
This update resolves an invalid array index issue that could potentially lead to code execution.
Regards
Marc Liron – Microsoft MVP